Study Guide Review

Study Guide Review

By Levorn Miller

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What is Ecology?

• The chemistry of Life

• The study of money

• The study of interactions between living and nonliving things in the environment.

• All of the above.

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All of the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other are called a/an ______.

• community
• habitat
• population
• ecosystem

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An organism that needs to eat other organisms to obtain energy is known as a:

• Autotroph
• Producer
• Consumer
• Mutualist

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Consumer that eats plants

• heterotroph
• herbivore
• producer
• community

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Where an organism lives

• habitat
• niche 
• heterotrogh
• biosphere

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Organism

• Something that is not alive

• A complete living thing

• Many living things

• Where something lives

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Species

• Broadest groups of taxonomy

• The taxonomic group that follows domains

• Same type of organism

• A living thing

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Which of the following correctly lists the levels of organization from most complex to least complex?

• Community, Organism, Population, Ecosystem

• Population, Community, Ecosystem, Organism

• Ecosystem, Community, Population, Organism

• Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem

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The biotic and abiotic factors that work together in an area

• Community

• Ecosystem

• Organism

• Population

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All the organisms that are the same type in a certain area

• Population

• Organism

• Community

• Ecosystem

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All the different types of organisms living in a certain area

• Community

• Ecosystem

• Organism

• Population

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The most specific (least complex) level of organization within an ecosystem

• Community

• Population

• Organism

• Ecosystem

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Jacob is going out to his grandparents farm. On the farm is a stream that he likes to fish at. When he is fishing he sees many differernt speacies of fish as well as maple and oak trees and dragonflies. What Jacob is seeing is an example of what level of organization?

• organism

• population

• community

• ecosystem

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TRUE or FALSE: A community includes all abiotic and biotic factors.

• TRUE
• FASLE

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A population must be of the same ________________?

• Color

• Gender

• Age

• Species

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A collection of organisms that make up a community as well as all of the nonliving aspects of the environment.

• Population
• Community
• Habitat
• Ecosystem

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What are the Abiotic factors in this image? 

• water, sunlight, dirt, air
• birds and plants
• birds, water, dirt
• plants, water

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The nonliving aspects of an ecosystem.

• Abiotic factors
• Biotic factors

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The living portions of the ecosystem.

• Biotic factors
• Abiotic factors

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Termites are tiny insects that can cause severe damage to homes and other structures that consist of wood. Termites are an example of what type of factor.

• Biotic

• Abiotic

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The Sun is the source of all energy within an ecosystem. Plants depend on light from the sun in order to perform the process of photosynthesis. Sunlight is an example of what type of factor?

• Biotic

• Abiotic

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Water is a compound that consists of 2 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen atom. Up to 60% of an adult human is made up of water. Water is an example of what type of factor?

• Biotic

• Abiotic

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An arctic blast pushed its way through several of the Northern state in the United State. The temperatures dropped below freezing for several days. Temperature is an example of which type of factor?

• Biotic

• Abiotic

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An angler fish has a fleshy growth on its head that gives off light. This part acts as a lure to help the angler fish catch its prey. An anglerfish is an example of which type of factor?

• Biotic

• Abiotic

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Which is an example of an abiotic factor in a pond environment?

• The water

• A frog

• A grasshopper

• A snake

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Which is an example of a biotic factor in the environment?

• The climate in the region

• Carnivores that consume other animals

• Amount of helium gas in the air

• Flow of water in a river

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Limiting factors are sometimes helpful because they can keep the population from getting too large.

• True
• False

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Food, water, sunlight, shelter, and space are resources that are  __________.

• limiting factors
• wet
• messy
• found in rocks

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If the population of a certain predator increases, there is often _______ its prey

• a decrease the population of
• an increase of the population of 
• great news for its prey of
• no  impact found on

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If there is more food than usual in an ecosystem, then...

• Populations will stay the same
• Populations will decrease
• Populations will increase

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Any thing or organism that regulates the size of a population of another organism is known as __________.

• a limiting measure
• a limiting factor
• factorization
• materialization of precipitation

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If a disease destroying barley plants in a field swept through an ecosystem, what would happen to the barley eating bird population in the the field ?

• The bird population would stay the same
• The bird population would infinitely increase
• The bird population would decrease

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Environmental factors that keep a population from increasing. 

• Carrying Capacity
• Limiting Factors

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Which is NOT an example of a limiting factor.

• Climate
• Available Food & Water
• Available Space & Shelter
• Species color

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The largest number of organisms that the environment can support. 

• Carrying Capacity
• Limiting Factor

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If the amount of food or resources available increases, the carrying capacity for an animal:

• Stays the same
• Increases
• Decreases
• Fluctuates

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What happens when an environment reaches its carrying capacity?

• Populations will decrease
• Resources such as food, water, and space will be unlimited
• Populations will increase
• Nothing, everything will stay the same.

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What is the carrying capacity of the graph?

• around 500
• more than 500
• less than 500
• around 600

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The total number of individuals a habitat can survive with the resources it has available.

• Carrying capacity
• Limiting factors
• Resources
• Population

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What is the carrying capacity of the following graph?

• 1000
• 8000
• 800
• 600

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What type of sediment tends to be the most impermeable?

• sand

• clay

• silt

• rocks

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If water can easily move between cracks of a rock, we can say that...

• water is permeable

• rock is permeable

• rock is impermeable

• water is impermeable

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______ is more permeable since water passes through it

• gravel

• sand

• clay

• Silt

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What is porosity

• Rocks

• The percent of the volume of open spaces in rock or sediment

• Ability rock sediment fluids pass through open spaces/pores

• Nothing

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Define permeability

• Water

• Nothing

• Percent of volume of open spaces in rock or sediment

• Ability rock/sediment fluids pass through open spaces/pores

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Decayed organic material in soil is called______.

• Litter
• Silt
• Humus
• Clay

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Soil is made of

• weathered rocks and minerals
• dead plants and animals
• air and water
• all of the above